| Show the express objects to the butterfield overland mail contract as being too enormously expensive to the department while hile it is but slightly advantageous to the public the express says of it what is called the batterfield mail costs us it goes fully six hundred miles out oat of the direct course to san francisco from st louis it passes for two tivo hundred miles through a sandy desert where there is neither wood nor water where filiere no white red I 1 or black man could live and where no settlement fiill ever exist it takes a circuitous route to california in order to make a direct trip to the treasury it ge gets t 3 money out of the public coffers in order to put it into the pockets of contractors if the object of such a mail was to serve the public it would be carried for three iLdred adel hi thou thousand in place of six hundred thousand dollars there would be then less for the people to pay and less to decide among m the agents who used their exertions to secure the contract to the ButtrA Butter nelds elds and their numerous partners in the speculation |
